Climate Change

No one appreciates more than I the necessity to work on legislation even against insurmountable odds. For the past seven years, the Appalachian Communities Health Emergency (ACHE) Campaign, a project of Coal River Mountain Watch, has been pushing one of the single boldest pieces of Climate Change legislation ever introduced in Congress.

The Trump administration’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s Midwest office is a former Wisconsin state official who rolled back enforcement of anti-pollution laws, reduced funding for scientific research and scrubbed references to human-caused climate change from government websites.